Let's get started!
- Open Command Prompt and then type minikube start , as shown in the following screenshot:
- minikube downloads the Linux VM image and then sets up Kubernetes on the Linux VM; now if you open VirtualBox, you can see that the minikube guest has been registered, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
- Wait for a few minutes to complete the setup of the Kubernetes cluster.
- As per the following screenshot, type kubectl version to check the Kubernetes master version.
- Use the kubectl get nodes command to check whether the Kubernetes node is ready or not:
- Now you can start to use Kubernetes on your machine! Again, Kubernetes is running on the Linux VM, as shown in the next screenshot.
- Using minikube ssh allows you to access the Linux VM that runs Kubernetes:
Therefore, any Linux-based Docker image is capable of running on your Windows machine.
- Type minikube ip to verify which IP address the Linux VM uses and also minikube dashboard, to open your default web browser and navigate to the Kubernetes UI ,as shown in the following screenshot:
- If you don't need to use Kubernetes anymore, type minikube stop or open VirtualBox to stop the Linux guest and release the resource, as shown in the following screenshot:
